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Wednesday, 8 July 2009

CRAIGIE HIGH WOODWORK ROOM - 1970

This shot of the woodwork room at Craigie High School was taken in 1970, just before it opened it's doors for the first time, and being in with the first batch of CHS pupils in 1970, we got to try out all this brand new equipment before anyone else.

Some of the things I can remember making were - a pendant (with leather strap) - ornamental knife - cheeseboard (with formica surface) - tea tray - football rattle (tried out at Dens) - and a submarine. The submarine actually worked. It was painted grey, had a strong elastic attached to the propeller and it did indeed zoom under water!

I ended up ditching woodwork though to concentrate on Technical Drawing when the time came to choose our subjects for O'Levels.

The 2 main teachers for woodwork in my era were Mr Blyth and Mr Milne. Mr Milne's wife was also a teacher at CHS during this period, in the Science dept.

In 1974, some CHS bright spark came up with the idea of making their own electric guitar!!

10 comments:

I was about to post how good it was to see this classroom again, and the wonderful memories. How i can recall standing at the turning lathe towards the top of the photo and making the fruit bowl that my mum still has. The laughs i had with my classmates...then i remembered about Mr Milne`s belt!!

Techy was one of these subjects you could get out early to be first in the lunch queue. Music was good too for that (just upstairs from the canteen), PE was just across the playground, and art wasn't bad.I was rotten at techy. We had woodwork, metalwork and techy drawing in 1st and 2nd year, then I gave it up.

I seem to remember Mr Young from the technical department or am I thinking he was in another department? Always remember him as a fantastic teacher at CHS, another name that just sprung off the top of my head is Mr Gauld I think he was from the geography or history departments.